Gray Wolf and Golden Jackal, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor austrian 1920s box or a nice snuff box

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and a head that seems perhaps to have been salvaged from another and crudely nailed on

) Wonderful faces

with the backs of several of the colored hearts showing that they were cut from some other sort of printed matter too

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Gray Wolf and Golden Jackal, Exquisite Early 19th Century Watercolor austrian 1920s box or a nice snuff boxA few more today from a second batch of fine c. 1840s watercolors, which I went back to my source in Germany to scoop up after having sold the last several I had quickly. This is not a hand colored engraving, it is an original, very finely executed ink and watercolor drawing, and my photos do it no justice; the color and detail is just glorious! One sees hand colored engravings in this manner (Bertuch et al) but quite a different thing in watercolor,